“Weinstein ejaculated quickly into a potted plant …”

I’m sure we’re all in a state of numb shock after learning that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein demanded sex favours from Hollywood starlets. If we can’t look to Hollywood producers for moral guidance, where can we?

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Makes you question your faith respected institutions doesn’t it? Next thing you know people will be saying that elected politicians manipulate events for their own ambition and not the the best interests of the country.

I never heard his name spoken aloud. Is it pronounced ‘Wine-stine’ or ‘Vine-stine’? Could be ‘Ween-steen’, I suppose, or combinations thereof: ‘Ween-stine’, ‘Wine-steen’, ‘Veen-stine’, ‘Veen-steen’ or ‘Vine-steen’.

My other question of the keen gardeners around the Afterword; is ejaculate good for plants? My friend has a wilting yucca that needs some help.

According to US newscasts, it’s pronounced (strangely, if you ask me) WINE-STEEN. That “ei” should be consistently “eye” should it not? The poster-boy physicist and Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Einstein was not pronounced INE-STEEN.

The first one of Tom Wolfe’s two stories in his book “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers”, was “These Radical Chic Evenings”, about Bernstein holding a gathering for the Black Panthers in his Park Avenue Manhattan duplex.
IIRC, at some point he insisted his name be pronounced -stine, as he considered the -steen pronunciation to be an affectation of those Jews who were trying to sound posh and fit in with the Gentiles.

And now I’m going to have to look up that Weinstein story for myself. I’ve come over all curious.

If I can be Ena Sharples for a moment. He appeared on the Graham Norton show a couple of years ago and I thought it was really odd. He’s not a film star, singer or performer of any kind. It must have been pure vanity that got him on there and, yes, he was a complete bell end.

‘Another favourite was Kenneth Williams’ country character, Arthur Fallowfield, who was based on Dorset farmer Ralph Wightman, a regular contributor to the BBC radio programme Any Questions? Fallowfield’s lines were full of innuendo and double entendre – on one occasion Horne introduced him as the man who put the sex in Sussex. Fallowfield’s reply to any question began: “Well, I think the answer lies in the soil!”‘

Hmm. This means Hollywood (the Babylon of the Western World, remember) has a stronger ethical code than the Grand Old Party, who refused to Dump The Trump even when his history of molesting (assaulting) women became too obvious to cover up.

Your thoughts on JFK’s and Bill Clinton’s ethics? Or was that…different?

Mark Steyn, as usual, absolutely nails it (er, not in the sense that Harvey or Bill would) here:

Until this last week, I doubt anyone has spoken truth to the power of Harvey Weinstein in three decades. Indeed, he seemed to enjoy the winks and nudges of the coy insider jokes made about him by Seth McFarlane and 30 Rock. In such a cozy pampering cocoon, you can see how a predatory thug ends up so self-unaware that he thinks nothing of heading the campaign to spring Roman Polanski from his rape problems.

Hmm. Let’s think. Are you implying that I condemn Trump because he’s a Republican? Winesteen is a liberal democrat, and that didn’t stop or excuse him from being a shitbag. As to going back in time and giving other famous men a good sound thrashing for whatever it is that they did, that’s where you come in, Dougie. Have at ’em!

No, you were, I believe, comparing and contrasting the treatment of Weinstein with that of Trump, the subtext being ‘well Harvey may have been a bad ‘un but at least he’s only a Hollywood producer and not the goddam POTUS’.

Fair (up to a ) point, as is my point that two noted and much-lauded Democrat former presidents had morals at least as regrettable as Harv ‘n Don but who have strangely avoided the rotten tomato treatment.

Eh? ‘well Harvey may have been a bad ‘un but at least he’s only a Hollywood producer and not the goddam POTUS’ is not what I was saying at all.

That my point again, in full:

“Hollywood (the Babylon of the Western World, remember) has a stronger ethical code than the Grand Old Party, who refused to Dump The Trump even when his history of molesting (assaulting) women became too obvious to cover up.”

See? Both these men have had their offences made public during their lifetimes and contemporaneously. Trump, Pussygrabber Of The United States, gets high fives from his fanbase and is allowed to keep his job. Weinsteeen, quite rightly, gets vilified and fired.

Have you read it? Or are you dismissing it as yet another ballsaching conspiracy theory? It gives the clearest picture of Kennedy, as a person, I ever read, and a very detailed exposition of the Bay Of Pigs crisis.

No, I was making a modest little sally (she came, hurr, after Margaret Sparks). Because, you know, the title somehow made me think of P G Wodehouse. I won’t do anything like that again. And I am actually quite keen to read it.

Can’t wait for the Spiked hot take. Hope you’ve got your Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V fingers limbered up, Dougs (although I can save you the bother – it’ll go like this: Weinstein is almost certainly the fault of “leftists” and/or “liberals”, and the real villain here is virtue-signallers rather than rapists.)